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Dear Journalist,

Sony Pictures Classics' THE TRAITOR will open in the Bay Area in February 2020.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.

The film is also the opening night film in the Cinema Italian Style 2019 in San Francisco.


The director Marco Bellocchio and actor Pierfrancesco Favino are available for in-person interviews in San Francisco on November 18.

 
#THE FOLLOWING PRESS SCREENING IS SCHEDULED#
Thursday, November 14 at 11am
Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
1 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111


#THE FOLLOWING PRESS DAY IS SCHEDULED#
Monday, November 18
Fairmont San Francisco
950 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94108

 
No screeners are available at this point.
Capsule reviews can run for Cinema Italian Style 2019.
FULL REVIEWS MUST BE HELD UNTIL THE THEATRICAL RELEASE IN FEB 2020.
 
To request an interview and attend the press screening, please email publicity@larsenassc.com to RSVP

Thank you.
Larsen Associates

Presents

THE TRAITOR
Directed by Marco Bellocchio

Italian Official Entry - The 92nd Academy Awards
Palme d'Or Nominee - Cannes Film Festival 2019
European Film Award Nominee - European Film Awards 2019
Grand Prix Winner - International Cinephile Society Awards 2019
Silver Ribbon Winner - Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2019

Opens 2020 in SF Bay Area
 

THE TRAITOR is a biographical crime drama about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss turned pentito.
THE TRAITOR is a Sony Pictures Classics release, runs 145 minutes, is in Italian with English subtitles, and is rated R by MPAA.


About the film
THE TRAITOR tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980’s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: He decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

About director Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio, after studying at the Dramatic Art Academy of Milan and the Experimental Cinema Centre, directs in 1965 his first feature film, remarked by the critics. Breaking with neo-realism, his politically-engaged works attack the Italian symbols of conformism; after his cult movie, Fists in the Pockets - manifesto of a youth in revolt - he denounces religion with In the Name of the Father (1971), and the army with Victory March (1976). Along with Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, he wins at Cannes two Best Actor awards for A Leap in the Dark (1980). He then passes from films deemed "subversive", in the image of Devil in the Flesh which sparks a scandal in Cannes in 1986, to literary adaptations such as the Pirandello adaptation The Nanny (1990). Marco Bellocchio troubles anew the Vatican with My Mother's Smile, selected by Cannes in 2002. And he was the first to speak out about the assassination of Aldo Moro with Good Morning, Night, screened at the Mostra in 2004 and unanimously hailed by critics worldwide.

 

Publicity Contacts: 
Larsen Associates

Karen Larsen, Will Zang, Jenni Olson
Karen@Larsenassc.com, Will@Larsenassc.com, Jenni@larsenassc.com 
415-957-1205

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